Yet?

Here's an encore article from journalist Claudio Gatti, of the Italian newspaper Ilsole 24 ore, that was published on March 26, 2011. As in his previous article (see Inquiring Minds Want to Know), Gatti continues to expose the Gulen connection to American - tax-funded- charter schools as well as the Gulenites' infiltration into Turkey's police force and other government entitities. And it does not paint a pretty picture -- unless of course you are an American politician, especially in the states of Texas, Ohio, or Hawaii.But if you happen to be -- say an ex-Turkish police chief, or Turkish journalists that dare to expose the truth -- the ugly truth behind Gulen and his cult, then the scene in the picture turns from the collective American statehouses endorsing Gulen's nefarious activities, to a Turkish prison -- and that's not quite so appealing. This is how it works -- give an American politician campaign money and Gulen gets a state "resolution', and a plaque telling everyone what a good guy he is; but write a story about the truth (about what a truly bad boy he is ) and you end up in jail.

So let's get this straight -- again -- Gulen and his cronies continue to break a laundry list of American laws via their charter school scam, and our government gives him awards and a green card so that he can steal from us here and not from afar (let's guess that they believe in the old adage about keeping your enemies close). While our politicians our busy praising Gulen's "selfless acts," taking his money and accepting trips to Turkey, he's busy rounding up anyone that wants to expose his true agenda, and giving them a trip to a Turkish jail.

In his story, Gatti quotes one of Gulen's more famous speech passages, in which Gulen is calling for his fellow Gulenites to "penetrate the arteries of the system without being noticed by anyone. Until you reach all the centers of power and the conditions are ripe. "

Well, it looks like Gulen found the trees in Texas, Ohio, California, and Hawaii to be very fruitful and ripe indeed, because he surely has picked off a lot of politicians to devour.

But here's our question to those politicians -- what's it going to take for you gals and guys to understand that you have been had and that Gulen has in fact "penetrated the arteries of the system without being noticed by anyone?" While these politicians have been kicking back with their tea and baklava and exploring Turkey, Gulen and his cronies have continued their mass infestation into the American education system, exploiting everyone in their path.

Maybe we should be the ones asking ourselves, when and how did the conditions become so "ripe" to allow this to happen?

Below is Claudio Gatti's story in both Italian and English:Translation by GooglePublished on March 26, 2011 in the Il Sole 24 OreBy Claudio GattiCgatti@ilsole24ore.usWhen we speak of Fethullah Gülen, the former Turkish iman who for over ten years has been living in retreat in the mountains of Pennsylvania, there are no half measures. You either you consider him the embodiment of goodness and tolerance, or an agent of authoritarianism and secretive power grab?

Last month, the Texas State Senate passed a resolution praising the work of the Muslim Brotherhood he founded, usually known as the Gülen movement although his followers call it "the Service" - Hizmet in Turkish. "The Gülen Movement," reads the resolution, "believes that tolerance and dialogue are the pillars of peace and the saying" live and let live "is the foundation of a life of selfless service."In Texas there are about thirty schools established by Gülen's followers. The authors of the resolution believe they are a model of the altruistic spirit of the movement. The FBI and the Department of Justice, as revealed last February 20 Il Sole 24 Ore, are investigating those schools for possible illegal use of school funds to finance lobbying activities and other crimes.

But what worries Washington the most are the goals of the movement in Turkey, the only Muslim NATO member country. "Until recently we had no clear perception of this movement. Because there were conflicting opinions, "said a government official, requesting anonymity. "Sources close to the AKP, the Islamic party of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, spoke very highly of Hizmet, highlighting its extraordinary work in the field of education. Sources close to the military told us to be wary, arguing that the goal of the Gulen movement is the control of the State. "

Our party does not say it, but the events of recent days in Turkey seem to confirm the worries of the military. We refer to the arrest last March 3 of two journalists, Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik. As a reporter with the daily Millliyet, Sener is the author of "Fethullah Gülen and his movement in the documents Ergenekon," a book on the role played by the movement in the judicial investigation of a possible military and anti-Islamic coup, called Ergenekon, investigation that led to the arrest of hundreds of people, including many government opponents.

Having also worked on the alleged Ergenekon coup plans, Sik was completing a book on the influence of Gülen movement in the national police force.

Their arrests were ordered by Zekeriya Öz, the prosecutor who coordinates the Ergenekon investigation, who refused to explain what led to the imprisonment of two journalists in the Metris prison in Istanbul. Öz simply said that “the evidence cannot be revealed for national security reasons."

Oz has also sought and obtained a court seizure of any possible copy, whether in paper or electronic form, of the book that Sik was about to publish. Last Thursday, police raided the printing house that was to print the book and broke into the newsroom of another journalist who had received an electronic version of the book for comments.

Sik's wife, Yonca, revealed that the police also ordered her to give up any digital copy of her husband’s book she may have to avoid on charges of "complicity with a criminal association."

How does the prosecutor justify such a move? In the text of the book, he claimed, were hidden messages in code to the coup leaders of Ergenekon.

But many suspect that the Gulenists are resorting to every possible means to prevent the publication of yet another book about their assault on the security apparatus of the Turkish state. Like the one published last summer by Hanefi Avci, a police chief of the provincial town Eskesehir, which described the Gülen infiltration of the police and the judiciary. Knowing that the government would not appreciate his work, immediately after the publication of what would become a bestseller, Avci offered his resignation from the police, which was accepted within hours. He didn’t expect what happened next: the former chief of police who spent his whole professional life fighting corruption and political extremism, was accused of collaboration with a terrorist group. Soon after he was arrested and thrown in jail.

Is it really possible that the Gulen movement has such power to use the apparatus of state at will? A diplomatic cable sent about a year ago by the U.S. embassy in Istanbul and made public a few days by WikiLeaks, seems to confirm this: " The assertion that the TNP is controlled by Gulenists is impossible to confirm”, wrote Ambassador James Jeffrey, “ but we have found no one who disputes it… Even among some Islamist organizations, the Fethullah Gulen Movement seems to have a murky reputation. The former head of the City Women's Platform, Hidayet Tuksal, told us…that Gulen's lack of transparency creates doubt about his motives and leads to suspicions about what lies ahead”.

Gülen does not like to talk to the press, and has always remained vague about his goals. Except once, in a speech to his followers in Turkey which was videotaped without his knowledge. In the tape, still available on the Internet, the imam calls on his followers to "penetrate the arteries of the system without being noticed by anyone. Until you reach all the centers of power and the conditions are ripe. "The preacher has always said that that his phrase had been misinterpreted and taken out of context. But the events of recent days suggest that the sentence might really express his real intentions.Italian Version as originally published.